Dataset

Historical Boston Population Estimates 1950-2020 (City Level)

This dataset includes historical demographic data for Boston’s population from 1950 to 2020 using U.S. Census Bureau Decennial Census data from 1950 - 2010, American Community Survey data (2008-2012 ACS for 2010 estimates), and Research Division population estimates for 2020, at the city level.…

Dataset

Publisher

Planning Department

Spatial coverage

Boston, Massachusetts

Keywords

1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020, 2025, Boston, FIRE, GED, accommodation, age, age group, ambulatory, ambulatory disability, arts, associates, average household size, bachelor, bedrooms, beds, below poverty line, bike, biking, boston, building, car, car ownership, carpool, carpooled, carpooling, cars, census, children, citizenship, city of boston, cognitive, cognitive difficulty, college, college degree, construction, demographic, demographics, demolitions, development, disabilities, disability, drove alone, education, educational attainment, employees, employment by industry, employment by occupation, enrolled in school, enrollment, entertainment, ethnicity, families, family, family households, finance, food services, foreign, foreign-born, government worker, graduate, health, health care, health insurance coverage, high school diploma, high school graduate, historic, historic demographics, historic population data, history, history data, household income, household size, household type, housing, housing tenure, housing units, housing units built, immigrants, immigration, income, independent living, independent living difficulty, industry, information, insurance, labor, labor force, land tenure, language, language spoken at home, leasing, living alone, low income, management, manufacturing, means of transportation to work, nativity, naturalization, naturalized, neighborhood, neighborhoods, net new units, new housing, new units, no health insurance, non-profit, number of bedrooms, occupation, or van, own, owner occupied, owner-occupied rent, owners, owning, people, population, poverty, poverty line, poverty rate, private company, private school, professional, professional degree, public administration, public school, race, real estate, recreation, rental, renter occupied, renter-occupied, renters, renting, resident employment, retail, retail trade, roommate, roommates, sales, school enrollment, scientific, self- employment, self-care difficulty, self-employed, service occupation, services, sex, social assistance, tenure, time to work, tract, tracts, transportation, travel time, travel time to work, truck, university, unpaid family, vehicles, vehicles per household, vision difficulty, wholesale trade, without health insurance, work from home, worked from home, workers, working from home

Publisher's page

https://data.boston.gov/dataset/historical-boston-population-estimates-1950-2020-city-level

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Identity

Identifier

urn:lemay:boston:dataset:historical-boston-population-estimates-1950-2020-city-level

Canonical URL

https://boston.fyi/dataset/historical-boston-population-estimates-1950-2020-city-level

As JSON

https://boston.fyi/dataset/historical-boston-population-estimates-1950-2020-city-level.json

Version

2 · last changed 13 September 2026